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Dr Vijay Paul and Dr Nishanth Krishnananthan had a problem. They were very close to a big issue in medical imaging but had no Startup experience. Their combined experience working in emergency medicine and surgery, across both rural and metro hospitals, had shown them that despite all the advancements in modern medicine, the communication of…
By Andy Howard, The Village of Useful | Original Article The last three years have seen Nordstrom, Microsoft, Disney, Target, Coca-Cola, British Airways and The New York Times either close or dramatically downsize their innovation labs. 90% of innovation labs are failing. This is a follow-up to our Business Insider ‘Big corporates should just ditch innovation…
By Andy Howard, The Village of Useful | Original Article High-growth companies aren’t focused on their existing markets. In 2006, ten companies on the NASDAQ were selected in the ‘UX Fund’, a portfolio of companies with market-leading user experience (UX) design. UX is the commercial engine of the Internet and these companies were selected for their…
By Andy Howard, The Village of Useful | Original Article The default internal answer to a corporate innovation project is often “no”. Let’s get to “yes”. For an innovative corporate project to launch, let alone succeed, a project must escape unscathed from a maze of sign-offs, department approvals and legacy practices. Anecdotally, way more projects are suffocated by process than see…
Brisbane, 28 September 2018 Travel and tourism Startups are plentiful but finding the good ones is always a challenge. But not anymore. Last year, Slingshot launched Horizons, a tourism industry accelerator backed by Brisbane Airport Corporation, Amadeus IT and the Queensland Government’s $650 million Advance Queensland initiative. The program was such a success, it opened…
By Ben Weinberger, Accelerator Development at Slingshot After 15 programs for over a dozen tier one corporate partners we have firmly proven the theory that Startups connecting with corporates are a valuable part of a corporate innovation strategy. Our clients now have new products, new investments, a more agile view on their own business and…




